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Some Windows 10 users are seeing notifications from Microsoft that their devices are temporarily blocked from receiving the Windows 10 1903 update.

Sounds of joy were heard throughout the land. If only they had known sooner how to prevent automatic updates...

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I found an easy way to prevent the update. Just don't have enough space left on the C: drive. My system has been trying to update for a while now, but it needs 32GB of space to do it and, darn, there's only 30GB free at the moment.

They will probably start checking other partitions / drives to bypass that

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The fifth annual Sonatype State of the Software Supply Chain Report is based on patterns and cybersecurity hygiene practices of about 36,000 open-source projects and 3.7 million open-source component releases.

In related news: Wow! Really?!

After that headline, I think it's time I closed up shop. I'm devastated that I couldn't come up with a better conclusion than they did.

Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed the presence of electrically-charged molecules in space shaped like soccer balls, shedding light on the mysterious contents of the interstellar medium (ISM) - the gas and dust that fills interstellar space.

You need an electron microscope to see bucky balls on Earth, and phenomenally sensitive galvanometers to detect a charge on them, but they can do all that when they're gazillions of miles out in space.